Quotes About Evolution

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

I design genetic algorithms, neural network and artificial intelligence systems.

From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

My kindness is the old version of my life, I have grown up.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.

El de entonces soy yo todavía, o si no soy él soy su prolongación, o su sombra, o su heredero, o su usurpador. No hay ningún otro que se le parezca tanto.

causa perplejidad y desconsuelo que las cosas cambien tanto sin que uno cambie respecto a ellas ('No

todo viaja hacia su difuminación lentamente nada más ocurrir y hasta mientras acontece